Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Matthias Berse wrote:
  >On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:17:09PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
  >> I have a laptop that uses the S3 Virge/MX video chip.
  >> 
  >> I had this working well with the xserver-svga from slink.  I recently upgr
      >aded
  >> to 3.3.6-3 and found that the quality of the display became significantly
  >> worse.  I have not seen any reference to such a problem anywhere I have
  >> looked.  Since I don't have any idea how the xserver works, I don't have a
  >> clue about the cause of the problem, let alone how to solve it.
  >
  >Try using the S3-server. That solved that issue for me on a Box with a
  >S3-864. I believe some of the S3 Cards are no longer fully supported
  >be the SVGA-Server. 
 
I tried the S3V server (it's a Virge chip) but that was much worse.

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